Liturgical calendar for Mars

Abstract

This article presents problems related to creating liturgical calendar for Mars colonists, assumed to land on Mars (accordingly to Mars One Project) in year 2024. It consist of five parts: why to colonize space; brief history of Earth calendar; deep correlation of liturgical calendar (e.g. fests) with astronomical events; last two parts present idea of civil Martian calendar and list difficulties related to extraterrestrial liturgical calendar.

Keywords

• Mars, kalendarz liturgiczny, kalendarz pozaziemski, Wielkanoc, Boże Narodzenie, kanonizacja